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[emma_in_dream]

The word straight is the longest one syllable word I can think of in English. Are there any with more than eight letters?

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[pedanther]

"straights"? Is that a real word that people who are not on Tumblr use?

[emma_in_dream]

Ooooh, and someone suggested stretched.

[sqbr]

As it happens Cam and I were discussing this the other day, he came across this wikipedia list and was deeply dubious of some of their choices. Scrunched etc seem like the best unambiguous ones.

[emma_in_dream]

Because of course this is the a top of mind issue among my friends.

[sqbr]

Naturally!